In the battle of the Ten Seat Holders, the one universally acknowledged as the greatest genius, the one even Ba Zunan had to avoid at his peak, was probably that person, right?
Xu Xiaoshou had even lived through part of his past amid his mortal-world insights. Completely unlike his wretched, self-imprisoned state of recent decades, he too had been brimming with wild arrogance, unwilling to bow beneath anyone his entire life.
"Kui Leihan?"
"Yes." Ba Zunan nodded lightly. "The first appearance of the God-Punishing Execution Tribulation truly astonished me."
"Those who transformed the Dao from emptiness into substance, achieving Spirit Cultivation and techniques, had existed since ancient times. By the end, all became gods and ancestors."
"Those before planted trees; those after enjoyed the shade. Later cultivators all advanced atop the shoulders of giants, within the various Ancestor God systems established before them."
"Divine Mind Penetration, however, opened another path, focusing on one's own 'thought.' A single thought—once one wished to enact it—could casually turn the formless into form. It also encompassed the ways of body joining intent and intent joining qi, successfully manifesting fantasy into reality..."
"Cao Yihan, a model for our generation!"
Ba Zunan clicked his tongue in admiration, then returned to himself. "Isn't this precisely the method I have always sought?"
"Your Dao was copied from every direction too..." Xu Xiaoshou muttered at an inappropriate moment.
He did not mean to belittle him. He simply felt relieved upon hearing this, letting go of some knot in his heart.
After returning from the world beyond the Three Doors, even though he knew he was not the Name Ancestor's fallen vessel, Xu Xiaoshou had still cared deeply about one thing: someone had already walked the path of "name" that he followed!
And the things he had cultivated all the